▲ 1345 ▼ As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia (www.cbsnews.com) submitted 1 year ago by kevowej635@lemmy.wtf to c/world@lemmy.world 146 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 22 points 1 year ago (1 child) The French Revolution can't come back soon enough permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Might want to read up on what happened after all that... Because... yeah. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Or even during. People think about Louis XVI getting chopped, but never the people who did the chopping getting chopped x4. And then, yes, Louis XVIII. The real fruits of the revolution were from the seeds it planted blooming decades later in the Victorian era. Living through it just sounds like it sucked. They were a generation of martyrs for a liberal democratic future they barely got to see the beginnings of. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago Well said permalink fedilink source parent
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child) Might want to read up on what happened after all that... Because... yeah. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Or even during. People think about Louis XVI getting chopped, but never the people who did the chopping getting chopped x4. And then, yes, Louis XVIII. The real fruits of the revolution were from the seeds it planted blooming decades later in the Victorian era. Living through it just sounds like it sucked. They were a generation of martyrs for a liberal democratic future they barely got to see the beginnings of. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago Well said permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child) Or even during. People think about Louis XVI getting chopped, but never the people who did the chopping getting chopped x4. And then, yes, Louis XVIII. The real fruits of the revolution were from the seeds it planted blooming decades later in the Victorian era. Living through it just sounds like it sucked. They were a generation of martyrs for a liberal democratic future they barely got to see the beginnings of. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago Well said permalink fedilink source parent